Inside Ultima Guide 2026: Astana’s Best Breakfasts

Since 2022, Eva Wine Cafe, part of Good Project Family, has made the case that truth lies in wine and food. It is hard to argue otherwise—especially when breakfast can come with a Bellini or a spritz. The morning menu takes an imaginative approach to porridge: spelt with pumpkin, green buckwheat with Parmesan. Fresh cheese gets an equally varied treatment, from syrniki made with irimshik to curd doughnuts, while fried and scrambled eggs cover more familiar ground. A separate all-day selection ranges from pancakes with meat ragù to a pastrami sandwich and scrambled eggs with salmon. This is breakfast with every possibility of lingering into lunch—and, perhaps, dinner and a glass of wine.

Breakfast from 8am–2pm on weekdays; 8am–4pm at weekends

Breakfast from 8am to 12pm

At Zina, from The Chef Group and Artem Marchenko, breakfast has a foot in two worlds. Millet porridge with roasted pumpkin and a cottage-cheese bake with raisins bring the comfort of home cooking; a Japanese omelette on a tartine takes a more contemporary turn. Eggs with red caviar and Siberian porridge with pine nuts bring Soviet classics back into the mix. Think grandmother’s kitchen meets the sitting room of someone who follows the latest in food. A complimentary glass of sparkling wine with every breakfast makes the transition all the easier. Children are equally welcome. There has been a playroom since the restaurant opened, with a playground on the terrace in summer.

Meat is only part of the appeal at this Turan Avenue restaurant. Breakfast begins early, with red caviar sandwiches, pancakes with stracciatella and, for a more substantial start, potato pancakes with scrambled eggs and beef sausages. Freshly squeezed juice comes in orange, carrot or pineapple. The morning drinks have their own flourishes: cinnamon in the cappuccino, hot chocolate served in saucers, and espresso whose aroma alone could wake anyone. Dinner before the ballet season opens is one reason to visit; breakfast from 8am is another. Roastbeef is particularly well suited to mornings when going out to eat deserves to feel like an occasion.

Breakfast from 9am to 12pm

Early starts are hardly the order of the day at Nasha Dacha. «Big and Hearty» is the menu’s promise, and breakfast delivers: a hot sandwich of smoked jaya on house sourdough, a generous dacha breakfast with grilled steak, mushrooms and bread, or even borscht with slow-cooked beef. This calls for a proper appetite. Breakfast is served until noon on weekdays and 2pm at weekends. Sleeping in is perfectly acceptable here. Mistaking breakfast for lunch is another matter — although, given the menu, you could hardly be blamed.

Uno has made the Ultima lists for a second year running, and with good reason. The eco credentials extend across the menu: ingredients come from its own farm or fields, and everything is handmade. Breakfast is a compact but spirited affair. House-made coconut-milk yoghurt, an omelette with farm-made stracciatella, fried eggs with homemade sausages and dry-cured beef—it reads as though a farm outside the city has taken a personal interest in your morning. Afterwards, linger at the display counter. There is yeast-free artisan bread to take home, along with burrata and ricotta from Uno’s own creamery. Leaving with nothing but memories of breakfast is almost out of the question.

Breakfast from 9am to 4pm

Breakfast from 10am to 3pm

Breakfast from 8am to 12pm

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Part of Good Project, Na Kryshe pairs sweeping city views with a breakfast to match. Start light, with whipped cottage cheese, pan-fried apricots, pistachios and honey, the panorama as your backdrop. Then explore the main menu. Eggs range from a prawn omelette to soft-boiled eggs with trout; porridge comes as rice with mascarpone and strawberries or millet with caramelised nectarine and hazelnuts. A spritz or Bellini lends a bohemian touch to the view and the artfully presented food. The morning begins with the skyline and unfolds at a beautifully set table, with a plate worth photographing.

Breakfast from 9am–1pm on weekdays; 9am–2pm at weekends

Breakfast from 10am to 4pm

Spread across several floors, Bizou brings together a deli, a bistro and a restaurant, where breakfast runs until 2pm on weekdays and all day at weekends. Porridge anchors the breakfast menu, with both sweet and savoury options—the latter includes green buckwheat with slow-cooked meat and a poached egg. Egg dishes range to a French omelette with mortadella. If that is not incentive enough to get up early, there are mini syrniki with poppy seeds, condensed milk and nuts. The signature breakfast also promises to set your circadian rhythm on the right course. At weekends, Krispy Kreme-style doughnuts add to the morning’s pleasures: crisp, glazed and dangerously persuasive.

Tochka makes a good-looking breakfast—and serves it until 4pm. The dishes taste every bit as good as they look, with mozzarella shakshuka the clear bestseller. Hungrier guests can opt for buckwheat risotto with chicken fillet or fried rice with salmon. If you wake craving an unlikely combination, chances are the kitchen has already thought of it. There is plenty for traditionalists, too: rice porridge with coconut milk, omelettes, substantial plates with beef sausages, and a green breakfast of avocado and broccoli. And with breakfast running well into the afternoon, waking around lunchtime is no obstacle.

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